Over the past three years, IndiGo has had the highest number of flight cancellations due to ‘technical glitch’ followed by Air India and SpiceJet. In 2022, IndiGo cancelled 613 flights, whereas Air India canceled 122 flights and SpiceJet canceled 151 flights.
A Rajya Sabha response stated that IndiGo, which operates the highest number of average daily flights in India, has also cancelled the highest number of flights. In 2020, the airline cancelled 155 flights due to technical glitch, followed by 188 flights in 2021 and a multi-fold rise of 613 in 2022.
Recently privatised Air India too had a large chunk of its flights cancelled due to technical glitches. In 2020, when Air India was owned by the government it had cancelled 831 flights. In 2021 too it had cancelled 316 flights. It was privatised last year after which its cancellations due to technical glitches dropped to 122 flights.
Another government airlines, Alliance Air had cancelled zero flights due to technical glitches in 2020, however, it rose to 56 flights in 2021 and 166 in 2022.
Spice Jet cancelled 104 flights in 2020, followed by 136 flights in 2021 and 151 in 2022.
Over the past three years a total of 1,481 flights, 931 flights and 1,171 have been cancelled due to technical glitches.